A Sickening Situation

I would like more information about the Balad Burn Pit lawsuit and how I can get in touch with Elizabeth Burke. I was stationed in Balad from June 2005-September 2005. During that time I had migraines, chest congestions, bloody nose, and fatigue. I though it was just the stress from being in theater. When I returned, the migraines, chest congestion, fatigue continued but new ailments emerged as well. Memory loss, chronic muscle aches and pains, sleep apnea has continued to this day. In March I was diagnosed with Fibroidmyalgia. I am now in the process of a medical discharge with the air guard.
I would like to help with this lawsuit or have my story known. I am sure I???m not the only one with these problems.

Please send me Ms. Burke's contact information.

human waste was done in Nam
we used Benzine

In Desert Storm we burned human waste from the outhouses. Under the outhouse seats were steel barrels cut to 1/4 height with handles welded on. We pulled them out, poured gasoline in then, stirred it up nicely and threw a match in and stirried the human waste as it burned, then added deisel because it burns hotter. Had 8 - 12 containers of burning human waste going at a time...it was a daily detail with a roster posted. Driving all Around Saudi and Iraq you could see plumes of smoke from human waste being burned. This was in addition to the burn pits where anything and everything was burned. The movie Jarhead accuratly portrays burning human waste. Was done in Vietnam too I believe.

In Desert Storm we burned human waste from the outhouses. Under the outhouse seats were steel barrels cut to 1/4 height with handles welded on. We pulled them out, poured gasoline in then, stirred it up nicely and threw a match in and stirried the human waste as it burned, then added deisel because it burns hotter. Had 8 - 12 containers of burning human waste going at a time...it was a daily detail with a roster posted. Driving all Around Saudi and Iraq you could see plumes of smoke from human waste being burned. This was in addition to the burn pits where anything and everything was burned. The movie Jarhead accuratly portrays burning human waste. Was done in Vietnam too I believe.

In Desert Storm we burned human waste from the outhouses. Under the outhouse seats were steel barrels cut to 1/4 height with handles welded on. We pulled them out, poured gasoline in then, stirred it up nicely and threw a match in and stirried the human waste as it burned, then added deisel because it burns hotter. Had 8 - 12 containers of burning human waste going at a time...it was a daily detail with a roster posted. Driving all Around Saudi and Iraq you could see plumes of smoke from human waste being burned. This was in addition to the burn pits where anything and everything was burned. The movie Jarhead accuratly portrays burning human waste. Was done in Vietnam too I believe.

The US military has a long history of creating toxic waste sites. Some things never change.

I was stationed on Anaconda (Balad Air Base) from July 2007 to March 2008, the Incinerators still sat Idle while we were there while the Burn Pits spewed a thick black and gray smoke 24 hours a day. Air quality was pretty bad over there and I lived on the West side of the Base. (The Burn Pit was on the east) I have a copy of a memorandum from 2006 stating the dangers of the Burn Pits signed by an Airforce Major I believe. Something horribly wrong with our country when we allow the safety and health of our soldiers to be compromised by a Corporation whos sole purpose is to increase shareholders value. Lawyers will probably drag this through the dirt for the wrong reasons, but it's another example of why we need to be aware of the "Military industrial complex."

The burn pits may have stunk but this lawyer's lawsuits smell like money just like virtually every other tort case in the USA.

Balad had at least 2 burn pits. Medical waste was incinerated in a seperate pit from general waste. An incinerator was eventually installed in 2005/6. The general waste pit was located on the upwind side of the base and did not appear to have guidelines for what could and could not be burned. In 2004 some agency on base (Army Corps?) contracted an incinerator on the downwind side of the base and once constructed it sat idle for years (maybe still?) because it was constructed with the wrong color money. Further, the sewage drainoff from the base through Bakr village was criminal, but it was identified and corrected.

KBR is the corporate equivalent of Israel: for all practical purposes, the US government is total subservient to it. So what if it wastes taxpayers' money to kill people overseas so that they hate us enough that they are willing to commit suicide in the process of killing Americans and Brits?

KBR can just get away with anything it seems.

And KBR probably charges millions of dollars for their third world services, claiming it uses modern day technology. Just watch and see...